[time-nuts] FW: HeyWhatsThat: January 15 Solar Eclipse

John Allen john at pcsupportsolutions.com
Fri Jan 15 04:20:33 UTC 2010


Hi Rex, sorry to hear that.  Apparently the page uses a new Google Earth
plugin (For Firefox).  Google Earth is known for it's demands on hardware,
particularly Graphics memory and possibly Main Memory.

Please let us know if you find out what is going on.

John Allen K1AE

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Rex
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 2:47 AM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FW: HeyWhatsThat: January 15 Solar Eclipse

The link doesn't play nice on my machine. The page opens in Firefox 
browser and shows some simple graphic of the earth with some clickable 
spots (I think). Then I see a message from my firewall that Google Earth 
is going out to the internet and all goes weird. The page gets new 
grainy overlays and the machine essentially freezes. Something is 
downloading but no joy after several minutes. Just regaining control is 
a mess because my mouse movements take about 5 seconds to show on the 
monitor. Two tries with a reboot between and I gave up.

Is it just a problem on my machine, or more common?


John Allen wrote:
> This is worth checking out for the path of Jan 15 eclipse.  
>
> John K1AE
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kosowsky [mailto:mk at heywhatsthat.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 11:41 PM
> To: john at pcsupportsolutions.com
> Subject: HeyWhatsThat: January 15 Solar Eclipse
>
>
>
> Just finished a simulation of Friday's annular solar
> eclipse at
>
>    http://www.heywhatsthat.com/201001-solar-eclipse.html
>
> It uses the Google Earth plugin to show both the eclipse
> shadow on the Earth and the relative positions of the Moon
> and the Sun in the sky.
>
>
> Happy New Year,
> MK
> twitter.com/heywhatsthat
>
>
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